Weight loss is about the glandular system!! What is the glandular system? All those chemicals and hormones that run your body!! You are not going to achieve weight loss if the hormones in your body are working against you. In other words, if you starve yourself and your basic "chemistry" has not changed, then you are getting nowhere. You may lose some weight, but you are going to gain it back because your metabolism is still the same. As we know, this causes many anxiety and added stress! The other problem is that many people are very toxic. A proper cleanse needs to be done to clean up the glandular system. It is very important to receive a nutritional consultation before starting a weight loss program to determine a program SPECIFIC to YOUR needs. There are all kinds of different cleanses and we need to find what YOU need. For instance, you may need to handle a chronic infection before trying to do a cleanse. Maybe you have a viral, parasite or fungal problem. These little buggers can really mess up your metabolism and appetite fluctuations. After handling chronic infections and cleansing properly, we are now ready to look at what is going on with your hormones. Many conditions in our environment and our foods can throw off your hormone balance. We need to talk about such things as "estrogen mimics" and other chemicals that may be reeking havoc in your body! Insecticides, plastics, hormones in foods are just examples of common things to watch out for. We have had the most SUCCESSES WITH THE HCG DIET in our office. This diet has helped to reset the metabolism of women. Not only do they lose the weight they want 90 PERCENT OF THE TIME, but they KEEP IT OFF! Please read Dr. Simeon's original book on HCG diet. The original studies on HCG were performed by him in the 1950's. This MD was working in India as a doctor helping women to give birth. He was curious why these women, many of who were very skinny and really even emaciated, were having healthy, robust babies. This led him to study a hormone that is high in the bloodstream of pregnant women. This hormone is called HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin). Now, please remember that this is not a "pregnancy" hormone in the sense of being named a "sex" hormone like progesterone, estrogen or testosterone. This hormone, HCG, is released from the hypothalamus and is considered a hormone of "metabolism" such as thyroid and adrenal hormones are. Dr. Simeon found that the HCG "protected" the fetus because the release of this hormone by the hypothalamus during pregnancy kept the bloodstream high in nutrition for the baby, regardless of a low calorie diet. In fact, the circulation of this hormone told the body the take calories from the storage in the body and maintian lots of nutrition in the blood stream. When you give this hormone to an overweight person and then they consume a low calorie diet, the body will take calories from storage to maintain the nutrients in the blood strem. Dr. Simeon said that this process will not usually happen when a person in on a low calorie diet.